Word: perfection
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...hostess ventured some quiet words reminding him of the deep personal affection in which he was held the wide world over. His morning mail lay beside him. She pointed to the pile of grateful and adoring letters. 'Ahyes,' he said, 'but they say Tennyson has written a perfect poem." Millet's early life - his parents and birth, his childhood and the development of his artistic temperament - is told in an interesting article by Pierre Millet, his younger brother. With this paper is an engraving by Closson of Millet's painting "The Sheep-Shearers." At intervals for the last few years...
...eleven and his election is a fitting tribute to his work. The prospects for another year have never been so promising as they are today; we have obtained a firm grasp of the principles of football such as we have never had before, and we can have perfect confidence in the ability of Captain Waters to employ them to good results...
...once showed itself subjective, metaphysical, chivalric. It had, however, from the start a purely German sentimental strain. The weariness and disenchantment of Walther's old age are illustrative of a change in the moral condition of Germany and the whole world. Chivalry had ceased to be the perfect idea; it had shown itself capable of strange absurdities, and clearly could not endure. We now see what was to come, but men in the 13th century may be pardoned for having found the future dark...
...first hour and a quarter of play Clark outplayed Armstrong in every way. particularly in breaking through and tackling, but the constant hammering that he received from push-plays told on him perceptably, and this with the fact that he was in far from perfect physical condition, made his play fall off a little in the last fifteen minutes. His tacking was a feature of the game, and was second only to Fairchild...
...every one subscribes. In Scotland and Ireland this is less so, while in America there is almost an entire absence of such a standard, while France, through her Academies, is ahead of all other nations in this particular. If we are so behind, what better place is there to perfect our language and to set a standard than here at our University, where so many opportunities are offered by the English departments...